US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on Aug. 5 for "Aircraft assembly with moveable device and panel displaced from moveable device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,956, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Aircraft assembly with moveable device and panel displaced from moveable device" was invented by Denys Custance (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft assembly is disclosed having a cover with an outer aerodynamic surface and an aperture with a stop adjacent an edge of the aperture, and a moveable device for extending through the aperture in the cover. The moveable device carries a panel attached to the moveable device by a plurality of leaf springs. The assembly is configured so that when the moveable device is moved t...